Pop quiz: who designed the instantly-recognizable, universal symbol for “recycle”? Yeah, we didn’t know either — until we consulted The Noun Project, a brilliant site that’s part design utility, part ...

wants to create a comprehensive collection universal symbols/graphics for all the things we use and encounter in day to day life, calling it a visual language. They also want it to be freely available ...

Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov have crowd-sourced a visual dictionary. Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Currently the site is home to over ...

As we’ve said, pictures often speak louder than words, and if you take a look at the way-finding symbols that surround any given urban area, you’ll see how visual representations can reach beyond ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In college, Edward Boatman was a “pretty rigorous” sketcher of simple objects like ...

Pictures often speak louder than words, and if you take a look at the way-finding symbols that surround any given urban area, you’ll see how visual representations reach beyond cultural and language ...